Netherlands postage

Can't you get one of those global priority envelopes and stuff it? They are just one price no matter what's in it....if you can close it! I think the 8x11 size is 9.50 to send anywhere. Something like that. I believe there is a smaller size and a bigger size envelope. OH dear, I just re-read your message....it did ask about the global priority. If you decide to go to the Post Office, you can pick up several of those envelopes to have at home for these types of emergencies! :-) Well, I'm no help. Good luck.

Hmm. I've sent things to Jess before, and never run into a problem. How odd. I just take the silly envelope to the local PO, and pay what they tell me. I don't recall that it was an exorbitant amount, either. Silly me, I didn't know there were other options.

Polly

There is a $6 and a $9.50 envelope, and a $20 box, they have weight limits but fabric is not gonna get anywhere near the limits. You will probably need the customs form, but it is real small and just asks what (fabric samples) and value (stay low or Jess may get hit with tax issues - less than $5 for a few squares is fine). It goes on all O/seas mail except letters.

Just imagine the odd looks I get when I fill in forms that say "biscuits" or "Cherry Ripes". My PO staff have long snce concluded I am "different" and they just process without comment now lol

i'd think 'small packet' or something similar to that wording would work too. and you sure do need that wee green 3 or 3 inch sq customs form. mark it gift and, as cher said, low $ value. it will arrive just fine. if its not much it probly isnt worth doing a global priority envelope. just my two cents, argh, make that 20 cents due to inflation and the exchange rate, lol. ttfn as dinner is on the table, jeanne

airmail is the cheapest option and almost as fast (though sometimes faster) than priority and shouldn't cost more than a couple of $ the postal service makes more $ for doing the same with the envelope as they do with airmail ones: fling them into the bag for the nearest airport.

ok after peeking on the USPS website I have discovered that you want global economy mail (AKA letterpost airmail), that The Netherlands is rate group 3, that 2 oz will cost $1.70 and that it will arrive in about a week after mailing which is more than fast enough :-)

HTH

Well, I never thought of all that. I simply put the squares in a envelope inside a card....slapped a stamp on it and put it outside for the mail lady to pick up. Hope it gets there :-(

don't worry Bonnie! it *will* get here :-)

I send 1 oz for 90 cents airmail in just a regular envelope.

Though the post office would prolly like it better if you went in and bought an airmail stamp.

HTH

NightMist

No idea how many stamps you need -I'm at the other end. But it should be possible to send it as an ordinary letter in a business-size envelope. The small-size Global Priority costs $5.25, according to the USPS chart. Netherlands is in Category 3. I recently paid 1 euro and 55 euro-cents to send a letter to the US, which would come to a bit under 2 dollars. Sure hope they got it right, it was my tax return. Roberta in D

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I suspect that would work out more expensive, Polly said about 2oz, I've posted stuff that size to Europe in a padded envelope and it goes in with the letter post, the price was about 1.60 dollars. I'm unsure about customs labels in this category.

If you go with some kind of parcel or packet post, the minimum price is higher because the bottom category is something like "under 8oz".

In my opinion, the best bet is treating it as a letter, I probably wouldn't even use a padded envelope, just pop the fabric in a page then put it between pieces of card that are a tiny bit smaller than the envelope.

Cheers

Anne

That's the way I send small gifts to friends overseas. Put them in a letter and pop them off.

Thank you, all of you. I was really hoping that I could put that little bit in an envelope and just mail it without it becoming an international event. If my mail carrier comes by tomorrow and kicks down the mail box, I'll know it was not okay. Polly

If your mail carrier kicks the mail box down at least they have some life in them. This mail girl here is really something. I think her bottom is glued to the seat. She honks for me to come out for the packages because she knows I am home. She won't even put the flag down. Only effort I have seen out of her was a card begging up a holiday tip. Yeah, right. She complains if anyone parks near the box too. Like I have any control over street parking. Fill in guy does a great job though.

Good news too that here I have t> Thank you, all of you. I was really hoping that I could put that little bit

Well, yes, Taria, you are right. I guess the most I could expect would be for her to hurl a hand grenade at the box. She certainly wouldn't unglue her backside and get out of the car. Polly

"Taria" If your mail carrier kicks the mail box down at least they have some

Oh dear!

I never even see my regular mail delivery man - the box is too far away. But the parcel delivery contractor comes to the door and carries stuff inside if it is bulky. She (hubby & wife team, he drives) will even stay to see what is in the packs if it is interesting quilty stuff lol. The last two contractors became students when they gave up the contract, all because they were facinated by the parcels I got.

Of course it helps that anyone who brings me mail (be it the

just a wee note, Polly, i'd write on the envelope "Fabric scraps" just in case anyone is worried during the journey. then ya probly wont need to worry bout the green customs sticker if you dont have one. cheers, jeanne

My mail lady must be the exception. She often delivers packages to the back gate, where she hangs them on a hook. I do think she just wants to see my canaries in the backyard. The UPS driver actually puts the packages on the back porch. FedEx driver is afraid to enter the yard - I have a sign stating the backyard is an wild animal habitat!

Oh we are lucky with British postmen! 99% of us have a flap in the front entrance door for post, and the postman just pushes it through - plop on the mat! No going outside at all. Our postman has a bicycle with a big carrier on the front (for the junk mail too!)as most of the houses stand back from the road, but where the houses are nearer the road they have hand carts. In really rural parts they use a van. However, they don't collect mail for posting - but posting boxes are liberally sprinkled about - I have 2 within easy walking distance. Our post usually arrives about 8.30a.m. but when the regular man is on holiday its about 1.00a.m.

Bigger packages come by van, and delivery man knocks on the door, so I have a big notice to hang there if I'm in the garden. If I miss him I have to go to the main Post Office to collect, and I am lazy! - no I am too busy!